Pith Number

pith:ZLJ4E4JM

pith:2018:ZLJ4E4JM3K65JWLHYINPNAKPI2

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On the convergence of optimistic policy iteration for stochastic shortest path problem

Yuanlong Chen

arxiv:1808.08763 v2 · 2018-08-27 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\pithnumber{ZLJ4E4JM3K65JWLHYINPNAKPI2}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:06:50.386207Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cad3c2712cdabdd4d967c21af6814f46ba7e6c20ce0b6e6617f513cfcfd4ba8b

Aliases

arxiv: 1808.08763 · arxiv_version: 1808.08763v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1808.08763 · pith_short_12: ZLJ4E4JM3K65 · pith_short_16: ZLJ4E4JM3K65JWLH · pith_short_8: ZLJ4E4JM

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZLJ4E4JM3K65JWLHYINPNAKPI2 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: cad3c2712cdabdd4d967c21af6814f46ba7e6c20ce0b6e6617f513cfcfd4ba8b

Canonical record JSON

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      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2018-08-27T09:51:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3709145376c0a2cf12e9f433c6b1ac76eb6d31aeade23daefb7fed418b7f3848"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
}